What advantage is there in using the $timeout in AngularJS instead of window.setTimeout?

Question

I had a suggestion to implement a timeout like this:

  $timeout(function() {

    // Loadind done here - Show message for 3 more seconds.
    $timeout(functi         


        

Answer 1

1. It wraps your callback for you automatically in a try/catch block and let's you handle errors in the $exceptionHandler service: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$exceptionHandler
2. It returns a promise and thus tends to interoperate better with other promise-based code than the traditional callback approach. When your callback returns, the value returned is used to resolved the promise.